When we as investors and business professionals, or just as normal people, want to achieve more but we can't due to difficult or extraordinary circumstances... What can we do? We go with the flow.
When we as investors and business professionals, or just as normal people, want to achieve more but we can't due to difficult or extraordinary circumstances... What can we do? We go with the flow. 👉👉 Get The Passive Investing Playbook - https://theinvestormindset.com/passive
We have to accept the way things are and look at them through an honest lens. This means looking at times HOW they are... not worse than they are or better than they are. This way we can make an honest plan to move forward through these times and grow in all areas of our lives.
Difficult times can cause us to have fear, but we have to move through that fear and find a way to adapt and keep progressing. So join me this week and let's move forward together.
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
1. Go with the flow.
2. Don't let fear hold you back from moving forward.
3. Look at the current situation with an honest lens and make a plan based on that.
4. Find the answers to these 3 questions to move forward:
- How am I going to make progress each day?
- What are the steps that will lead me to feel like I'm progressing?
- How can I track my progression so I can look back and see what I've achieved?
5. Remember that life is about progression. As long as we feel like we're moving forward, that will give us the motivation and drive to keep going.
Steven: [00:00] When we're dealing with difficult times, it's even more important that we remember the key tenant, the key tenant of going with the flow of accepting things as they are and moving forward. In today's episode, we're going to talk a little bit about that and why it's so important, especially as we close out the year on the strongest job possible. So stay tuned, we're going to get right to it.
INTRO: This is the Investor Mindset Podcast and I'm Steven Pesavento. For as long as I can remember, I've been obsessed with understanding how we can think better, how we can be better, and how we can do better. And each episode we explore lessons on motivation and mindset from the most successful real estate investors and entrepreneurs in the nation.
Steven: [00:00:58] And before we jump into the episode, today, I wanted to remind you guys to go grab your copy of the Passive Investor playbook, the Ultimate Guide to passive investing. And you can find your copy at theinvestormindset.com/passive, you can find that right here in the show notes. The Passive Investor playbook is full of all the foundational information you're going to need to start learning how you go and make those smart decisions as a passive investor? How do you go about getting sponsors? How do you go about deciding what your investment goals are, whether you want to be active or passive, and of course, what type of investment opportunities you're looking for we dive really deep into some great topics. We've covered a lot of these in some short podcast episodes, but you can grab the full guide full of grass pictures, and plenty of information right over at theinvestormindset.com/passive, I look forward to having you enjoy that. And let's get right back to it.
Steven: [02:02] Welcome back to this week's mindset minutes episode. I'm your host, Steven Pesavento. And each week, we share mindset tips and real estate investing strategies to help you take your business and investing career to the next level. And if you're just joining us, please make sure you go right down here and hit that subscribe button so you never miss another episode. And drop us a review if you have been listening for any amount of time to let the algorithm know that this is quality content that you like listening to. And so we can reach even more people with what we're doing. Let's get into it.
Steven: [00:02:36] So today, what I really want to talk about is something that has really been on my mind, it's been on my mind throughout 2020, and it's this feeling of always wanting to do more. And when we're dealing with tough times, we're dealing with challenges like we have been throughout the last year here, it's even more important for us to remember to go with the flow. And sometimes as achievers as drivers as success-oriented people, it can feel like we are stuck in the mud, like we're not making the progress that we want to make. And I know for me, 2020 has been one of the best years combined with one of the worst years. But one of the biggest things that continues to come back up is this reminder of going with the flow of accepting the way that things are, looking at them through an audit lens, making sure that we're looking at them, as they are not worse than they are not better than they are, but specifically how they are right now and truly accepting that and then setting a plan forth for us to be able to move forward and try to make some positive change and positive growth in our life. Because at the core, I really believe that life is all about growth. It's growth in your portfolio. It's growth in your personal life. It's growth with your family, it's growth, with your business, in your career, all of these places we want to be growing, we want to be making that progress, because that progress is what ends up fulfilling us. It's that progress which ends up giving us that feeling that we're making the right steps in the right direction. But the thing that ends up being an anchor that can pull us back that can pull us away from making the right decisions to make that investment or to make that phone call or to start that business is the fear. And it's that fear of maybe not doing enough or not making enough progress or that fear that we're not qualified to be able to execute the way that we want to. And I know I talked to a lot of investors and there's this fear that I've been super successful in my career. I've been making a ton of income, and I want to get in real estate investing but I'm frightful. I'm frightful to invest as a passive investor. I don't know what I don't know. And I'm frightful to invest as an active investor. I don't know what I don't know. And this is a feeling that a lot of people experience. I know it's one that I experienced many years ago when I first started and it's something that I experienced, when I start anything new, I remember when I first started salsa dancing many years back, I was terrible at it. And so it took me years before I finally went back and started taking some classes. But what I had to commit to myself in that moment was that I was going to be focused on progression, that I was going to be focused not on being great today, but on the greatness that's going to come by consistently practicing what I preach by consistently going and working with my trainers and my coaches and going and putting in the time. And day after day and dance after dance, I ended up getting a little bit better, and I was able to go out. And finally there was a moment where it clicked. It's that same moment you have if you're learning a language, or if you're underwriting deals, or if you're doing anything, that all of a sudden it clicks, and you at least make it to a new plateau, a plateau where it feels like you've got the skill, a plateau where it feels like you've made the progress to the place where you could be satisfied staying, but you probably won't be satisfied for long. And that's okay but the important thing is that you've made it to that place where you need to celebrate, you need to celebrate the fact that you can go out and enjoy a good dance or you can go out and make a real estate investment and feel confident that you know what steps you need to take.
Steven: [00:06:17] But you're not going to know until you start taking action, when you start moving forward to it. But you have to just acknowledge that you got to go with the flow, you can't change the circumstances external to you, you can't change the fact that we've been going through quite the lockdown, you can't change what's going on in the election, you can't change who gets elected, you can't change what the outcome of any of those decisions are going to be, you can definitely make an influence and you can make an influence in your own life by going with the flow, by going back to that core tenant of making sure that you're focused first, how am I going to make progress each day? Second, what are those steps that are going to end up leading me to feeling like I'm making that progress. And then third, tracking the results that you're taking every day so that you can start to realize on those days when you're not feeling like you're getting where you want to go that you can recognize, "like, look how far I've come and take a moment to celebrate.
Steven: [00:07:17] And so as we're heading into the end of a phenomenal year, I think it's even more important for us to be reminded about the importance of flow, go with it. We want to face into resistance and be able to work through it and not give up but we also don't want to be stuck in this place of always feeling tension and feeling like we're always fighting, sometimes we just need to accept things the way they are and flow through them to the greatness that is within all of us. So if this speaks to you, please drop a message down below and let me know what specifically I was talking about here, it was powerful for you. If you're listening to podcasts, shoot me an Instagram DM at Steven.Pesavento or DM on LinkedIn letting me know what spoke to you about this episode. What was it in particular that you actually liked, so that we can make sure we include more of those in the future? So thank you for all the amazing reviews you guys have been leaving. It's incredible to see how many have been flowing in and it's a huge help in allowing us to really use the algorithm on podcasts and on YouTube to its most effective place. So hit that like button, hit that subscribe button, drop review, and help us reach even more people. So thank you guys so much and I look forward to seeing you next time.
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